--- title: The humming noise is the compressor, a small pump, switching on and… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics description: The humming noise is the compressor, a small pump, switching on and off to keep the inside cold; a fridge is one of the few machines in a house that runs day and night. Who acts: humming noise, small pump, fridge, house. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humming noise, small pump, fridge, house), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:6 # text = The humming noise is the compressor, a small pump, switching on and off to keep the inside cold; a fridge is one of the few machines in a house that runs day and night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 humming humming NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 compressor compressor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 switching switch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 off off ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the humming noise | the compressor | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **switch on** | gerund | a small pump *not said here* | | | | | off *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a small pump *not said here* | the inside | | | | cold *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a fridge | one | | | | of the few machines in a house | tree rules | | 5 | **run** | present | a house | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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